The Remote Control. Amino Remote Control. Dear Magnet Customer,

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1 Di g i t a l T VUs e rgui de December09

2 The Remote Control As a subscriber to Magnet TV, you could find yourself using a mix of any of the following remotes. Their related functions are detailed with each remote control. Amino Remote Control Dear Magnet Customer, We re delighted to welcome you to the latest edition of the Magnet Entertainment TV User Guide. Over the last 12 months, we ve made some considerable improvements to the Magnet TV service, be it with the introduction of the Magnet+ service, the new menu layout or indeed the ability to create a number of favourite channel lists. Now we re back again to introduce some new features such as the long awaited Series Link function and the Time Buffer option. We hope you find this user guide both helpful and informative and, as always, should you need any further assistance, don t hesitate to call our very helpful customer care team on or by at support@magnet.ie The Magnet Team 1 2

3 Motorola Standard Remote Control Magnet+ Remote Control (Motorola Slimline) 3 4

4 The Main Menu Below is a list of each of the primary menu options, their secondary options and a description of what each of the options function is. Primary Option Secondary Option Sub Option Function Start TV Guide Access to TV Program Guide TV Today Contains all of the Programming information for Today TV Tomorrow Contains all of the Programming information for Tomorrow Radio Access to the Radio Channels RSS Feed Access to Data Feeds from the Internet News Access to the most up to date News from the Internet Weather Access to the most up to date weather from the Internet My Pages Access to the customisable settings on your Set Top Box or Magnet TV Account and Reminders Settings Access to the customisable settings on your Set Top Box or Magnet TV Account Pressing the Home / Portal button (Numbered 16 on your remote control diagram) takes you to the main menu at the Start option. There are 4 other primary options in the main menu, TV Guide / Radio / RSS Feeds and My Pages. The menu map above shows each of the primary options and their subsequent secondary options. TIP: Keep this page in mind while reading the other sections of the manual. Reminders Video Out Aspect Ratio Master PIN Change PIN Allows you decide how to handle the picture format when there is a conflict with the Aspect Ratio Allows you change the aspect ratio between Widescreen (16:9) and Standard (4:3) Allows you to set a preference for parental control to be enabled / disabled Allows you to change the PIN for parental control Access to your reminders 5 6

5 Navigating the menu couldn t be easier. Simply use the 4 directional arrow buttons and the OK button on the remote control (Numbered 10 on your remote control diagram). As you get further into the menu, you will notice some handy colour coded short keys for faster navigation (Numbered 11 on your remote control diagram). Within the TV guide day you have selected, you can navigate left and right through the channels. You can also navigate up and down to see programs within the channel being highlighted. The Action Menu In addition to the main menu, there is an action menu. This can be called up at any time by pressing the Menu button on your remote control (Numbered 9 on your remote control diagram). From this action menu, you can quickly navigate to any of the main menu options and the TV Guide. When in the TV Guide, you can set reminders and remove reminders from this action menu also. Getting down to business Watching TV In this menu system, we ve made it as easy as possible to get down to watching TV from any place within the menu. In this section, we ll take you through the options available to you, both in the menu systems and while watching TV. The most important part to remember is the ease at which you can get back to watching TV. It s as simple as pressing the TV button (Numbered 12 on your remote control diagram). Wherever you are in the menu, its sub menu s etc... pressing the TV button will take you back to the TV channel you were last watching. The TV Guide To see the TV Guide, simply press the Home button on your remote control (Numbered 16 on your remote control diagram), navigate to the TV Guide option in the main menu and select OK on your remote. Here you will be able to select the TV Guides for Today, and up to 7 days in advance. Now, select the day of TV guide you wish to see. To confirm your selection, press the OK button on your remote. 7 TIP: To navigate faster through the channels, use the Yellow and Blue buttons. You can set a reminder for any program to be aired in the future by highlighting the program using the Up and Down buttons on your remote, followed by selecting the Menu button on your remote. Now, scroll down to the Set Reminder option on the action menu and press OK on your remote. 8

6 You can remove this reminder by repeating the same steps, only this time, select the Delete Reminder on the action menu. Selecting CH+ and CH- will change the channel up and down respectively (Numbered 8 on your remote control diagram). The Up and Down arrows will also change the channel up and down. While Watching TV There are a number of actions you can do while watching TV. Selecting the Left or Right arrow will take you to browse mode. This allows you to browse to other channels to see what is currently on air. While in browse mode, you can use the Up and Down arrows to see what programs on the currently selected channel come later in the day. You can also set reminders on any of the highlighted 9 10

7 programs and selecting the action menu as detailed earlier in the manual. To get out of browse mode, press the TV button on your remote The Info button on the remote control (Numbered 13 on your remote control diagram) will also take you into browse mode. Pressing the Info button a second time will give you some more information about the program you are currently watching. To remove the more information window, either press the Info button once more or press the TV button. Selecting the OK button from the remote will open the channel list window. This is a list of what is currently on-air on all channels. You can navigate up and down these channels using the Up and Down arrows. You can also use the Pg Up and Pg Down buttons to navigate up and down by a block of channels for faster navigation (Numbered 14 and 15 on your remote control diagram). In this channel list, you can also select the Info button to view more information about the highlighted channel and corresponding program. To close the channel list window, press the TV button on your remote or select a new channel to watch by pressing OK on your remote. Favourites Channel Lists One of the unique features available to you on the menu system is the opportunity to create up to three favourites lists. You can edit these lists from the Channel List window (Selecting the OK button while watching TV). To access the first favourites channel list, press the Right arrow button on your remote. To add, remove or edit the channels in the favourites list, press the Green button on your remote. To add a channel to the list, navigate to the channel on the left hand panel and press the OK button on your remote. Once you add a channel, it is placed onto the right hand panel. As you add more channels, the list will become bigger. You can change the position of your favourites in the favourites list by highlighting the channel on the right hand panel, selecting the OK button on your remote and moving the channel up or down on the list using the Up and Down arrows on your remote. Once you have found a position you are happy with, press the OK button once more on your remote to save the new position 11 12

8 To save your channel list, select the Yellow button on your remote control. To remove a channel from the list, scroll to the channel on the right panel and select OK on your remote followed by the Left arrow button. This will return the channel to the left hand panel. Now that you have saved at least one favourite channel list, you may want to use it. To do this, select the Red button on your remote to get the overview of the channel list and the favourites list. Navigate to your preferred favourites list using the Left and Right buttons on your remote control and select the Yellow button on your remote control to activate the favourites list. TIP: To activate the normal channel list once more, simply navigate to the All channel list and select the Yellow button on your remote. Radio There are a number of Radio channels available in the main menu under the Radio icon. To access these channels, select the OK button on your remote. You can browse the available Radio channels by using the Up and Down arrows to highlight the desired channel. To begin listening, select the OK button on the remote. You can change channels by using either the CH+, CH-,Up and Down arrows. RSS Feed With this menu system, you have the opportunity to read the most up to date News and Weather. To access these, select the RSS Feed from the main menu and press the OK button on the remote. You will be given the option of choosing either News or Weather, with the default set to News. To read further detail of a News item, select the OK button on your remote. To change News item, use the Up and Down arrow on your remote. To go back to the full list of news items, select the OK button on your remote. 13 To view the weather for the next few days, press the Right arrow on your remote. To select your preferred day, navigate using the Up and Down arrow and select OK on your remote. To go back to the full list of Weather items, select the OK button on your remote. My Pages The my pages section of the menu give you the choice to customise your viewing experience, manage your reminders, enable / disable parental control and change your master PIN. 14

9 To access these choices, select the My Pages option from the main menu. Settings Aspect Ratio This setting allows you to position the picture in its full shape on your Television sets. Aspect Ratio can either be in traditional format, called 4:3 (Meaning 4 Units Wide and 3 Units Tall), or Widescreen, called 16:9 (Meaning 16 Units Wide and 9 Units Tall). Over 90% of programming on the Magnet TV platform is in Widescreen. With a larger proportion of Widescreen televisions now in operation, we have set the default Aspect Ratio to be Widescreen. You can change this to be 4:3 by selecting the Aspect Ratio option which is found in the Settings Option in My Pages. To finalise your choice, select 4:3 and press the OK button on your remote. of 9pm through to 5:30am the following morning. The default PIN number, called the Master PIN, is While watching TV, if you select one of these channels, you will be asked to enter your PIN. Enter this pin using the number pad panel on your remote. Press the Green button on your remote to confirm Video Out Coupled with the Aspect Ratio, the screen may also need to be configured to handle Widescreen video on a traditional 4:3 Television. This option is called Video Out, which can be found in the Settings Option in My Pages. There are 2 choices, letterbox and centre cut-out. Letterbox will place a black bar above and below the video to force the 4:3 screen to show the picture in widescreen, ensuring all the video can be seen. Centre cut-out will cut a portion both left and right of the video to fit the Widescreen picture into the 4:3 screen. To finalise you choice, select either Letterbox or Centre cut-out and press the OK button on your remote. Parental Control The menu system comes with a default Parental Control solution to protect younger viewers from unsuitable content. By default, we have PIN protected any channel which has the right to show content rated 12 s and over before the watershed time 15 Next, we will tell you how to change this password and, should you decide to, disable parental control. 16

10 To change your PIN, navigate to the Change PIN option, located in the Settings option in My Pages. Press OK on your remote to change the PIN. First off, you will be asked to enter your existing PIN. Enter this pin using the number pad panel on your remote (Numbered 4 on your remote control diagram). Press the Green button on your remote to confirm. Next you will be asked to enter in a new PIN. Enter this new pin using the number pad panel on your remote. Press the Green button on your remote to confirm this new PIN. Finally, you will be asked to confirm this new PIN. Confirm this new pin by re-entering it using the number pad panel on your remote. Press the Green button on your remote to confirm this new PIN. To disable / re-enable Parental Control, select the Master PIN, located in the Settings option in My Pages. You will have 2 options available, On / Off. Select the appropriate option using the Up and Down arrows and select OK on your remote. You will be asked to enter in your PIN to validate your choice. Enter your pin using the number pad panel on your remote. Press the Green button on your remote to confirm. Reminders As already mentioned, you have the opportunity to set reminders in the TV Guides. You can manage these reminders in the Reminders Option located in the Settings option in My Pages. Here you can delete reminders by highlighting them using the Up and Down arrows, selecting the OK button on your remote, followed by pressing the Yellow button on your remote

11 Magnet+ Functions With the Magnet+ box, you can schedule a program recording, pause live TV, watch one program while you record another and watch your recorded programs in your own time. All of these addition functions come by way of your Magnet+ box which comes with a 160GB hard disk which can record up to 100 hours of programming. In the following sections, we will go through how to schedule a recording from the TV Guide and browse mode, be it an entire series or a single episode, pause live TV and how to watch back your recorded content. You will also notice that your main menu and action menu have some additional options

12 Schedule a Recording There are a number of ways you can schedule a recording. We ll concentrate on the TV Guide for now. Simply scroll to the program in the TV Guide as detailed in the earlier TV Guide section of this manual. When you have highlighted a program you wish to record, select the Menu button on your remote control. This will present the action menu on screen. Now scroll to the Schedule Program Recording on the action menu and press OK on your remote. You can also schedule a recording from browse mode while watching TV. As mentioned in the previous section on browse mode, you can quickly browse what s on all other channels in a small browser window at the bottom of your screen. You can also schedule recordings from here by highlighting the program you wish to record and select the Menu button on your remote control. This will present the action menu on screen. Now scroll to the Schedule Program Recording on the action menu and press OK on your remote. For certain programs, there will be an option to Schedule Series Recording. This option is available for programs that are part of a series and will schecule a recording for every episode from the selected episode onwards until the series ends. Future episodes will appear in the scheduled recordings section (See page 24) as individual episodes. To stop a scheduled recording, including a series recording, you can either navigate to the program on either the TV Guide or in browse mode. Once you have located the scheduled recording, you can delete the event by selecting the Menu button on your remote control and select Unschedule Recording / Unschedule Series Recording on the action menu. While Watching TV While watching TV, you can record the current program you are watching. To do this, select the Menu button on your remote control. This will present the action menu on screen. Now scroll to the Record this program on the action menu and press OK on your remote. The program will be recorded from this point on. While watching TV, should a recording be in progress, you will see a being recorded channel bar while in browse mode

13 Watching Recorded Programs All recorded programs are stored in the recordings section under My Pages in the main menu. Here you can browse through your catalogue of recorded programs, watch them and delete them at your will, view all future scheduled recordings and see what is currently being recorded. Once you have selected recordings within the My Pages section of the main menu, you will be presented with 3 options, Recordings, Scheduled Recordings and Recording Now. To view a list of your recorded programs, select the Recordings option. TIP: Remember that you can watch one live program while recording another live program. To stop a live recording, scroll to the program being recorded on either the TV Guide or in browswe mode, select the Menu button on your remote control and select Stop Recording on the action menu

14 To begin viewing any of your recorded content, simple press OK on your remote control. Once the program begins to play, you are able to perform what are called Trick Play functions, namely fast forward / rewind / skip chapter / pause / play and stop. Upon selecting any of the trick play options, you will be presented with a progress bar in the bottom portion of the screen. Here you will be able to see how far into a program you have viewed. The fast forward and rewind will increase the speed incrementally upon each key press. The skip chapter button allows you to skip forward and back by 5 minutes at a go. Pressing the stop button will take you back to your recorded programs list. To delete a recorded program, select the Menu button on your remote control and select Delete Recording on the action menu. You can also delete multiple items at once by choosing Select Multiple from the action menu and then selecting the individual items by pressing the OK button on your remote (Numbered 10 in your remote control diagram). Once the item has been selected, the item title will turn green and a tick symbol will appear to the left of the item. Once you have selected all the items you wish to delete, select the Menu button on your remote control and select Delete Selected on the action menu. NOTE: Once a program is deleted from the Magnet+ box, it cannot be retrieved. Back in the Recordings menu, you can also view your scheduled recordings. Here you can also delete scheduled recordings as detailed just a couple of sections back in the manual. Recordings Menu The Recording Now option in the Recordings menu allows you to see what, if any, recordings are currently active. You can also stop these recordings by highlighting them, selecting the Menu button on your remote control and selecting Stop Recording on the action menu. The final option in the Recordings Menu is an option to set a time buffer setting. This allows you to program a number of extra minutes to record before and after a scheduled recording. This ensures programs such as live events can have their recording period extended should they over-run their alloted schedule in the program guide. By default, the time buffer is not set. This time buffer setting can be changed in the Recordings menu by selecting the Time Buffer option. Press the OK button on your remote control to changed either the start or end buffer time. Pressing the left arrow button (Numbered 10 in your remote control diagram) will delete the existing setting for start / end buffers. Use the 25 26

15 number pad on your remote to set a new time. Pressing the green button on your remote control will save these new settings. Pause Live TV The Magnet+ box also allows you to pause live TV. To do this, simply select the pause button on your remote control (Numbered 21 in your remote control diagram). The picture will take up to 2 seconds to pause. Once correctly paused, you can leave the channel in a paused state for as long as you wish. Once paused, you have access to the Trick Play features detailed in the previous section of the manual (fast forward / rewind / skip chapter / pause / play and stop). Skip chapter will come into play once the pause has lasted more than 5 minutes. Once paused, a control panel will appear on screen. This panel shows the time at which the channel was paused. It is also possible to access the change time buffer option by highlighting a scheduled recording / series recording / scheduled recordings in the TV Guide or browse mode. Once the recording is highlighted, press the menu button on your remote control and select Edit Recording Time Buffers

16 Once you have paused Live TV, you are no longer watching live TV. If you select any button on you remote that causes you to leave the channel (Channel + / Channel - / Go to Home or Portal pages), you wil be prompted to either confirm that you wish to leave pause live TV, stay in pause live TV mode or to save the segment of time you began the pause from. TIP: The Save option gives you the choice to save the period of time you paused live TV from. This can be very useful if you want to leave and watch another channel before finishing the current program. NOTE: Only saved portions of programs paused are viewable in the recordings section. Normal pause live TV portions not saved are deleted immediately upon confirmation of channel change / leaving of pause live TV 29 30